Jane Austen Quotes

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.